English Explanatory Dictionary

typical

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj

Capturing the overall sense of a thing.
Characteristically representing something by form, group, idea or type.
Normal, average; to be expected.
Of a lower taxon, containing the type of the higher taxon.

noun

Anything that is typical, normal, or standard.

Pronunciation

/ˈtɪp.ɪ.kəl/ [ˈtɪp.ɪ.kəɫ] [ˈtɪp.ɪ.kɫ̩] En-us-typical.ogg

Word forms

typical more typical most typical typicall typicals

Etymology

From Late Latin typicalis, from Latin typicus (“typical”), from Ancient Greek τυπικός (tupikós, “of or pertaining to a type, conformable, typical”), from τύπος (túpos, “mark, impression, type”), equivalent to typic + -al and type + -ical.

Synonyms

customary mundane ordinary average medial basic bog-standard common commonplace common-and-garden common-or-garden congruent consistent conventional everyday expected garden variety improminent natural normal par for the course plain plain vanilla quotidian regular routine run-of-the-mill standard standard issue typical unexceptional unremarkable unstrange usual vulgar wakeaday workaday

Antonyms

atypical

Related words

typal type typic gestalt gist resemblance emblematic prefigurative distinctive

Derived words

antitypical chronotypical etypical geotypical homotypical hypertypical ideal-typical intertypical isotypical metatypical morphotypical neurotypical nontypical normotypical polytypical serotypical subtypical supertypical typical antipsychotic typical bandicoot typical bush warbler typicality typically typicalness ultratypical untypical

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